Project structure

GENERAL STRUCTURE

The project has been structured in 7 Sub-Projects and 38 Work Packages.

The 5 technical SPs are supported by the Project Management & Technical
Coordination (SP0) and Dissemination and Exploitation (SP1) subprojects.

For each sub-mission considered, the functional & technical specifications for prevention, mitigation and crisis management will be defined (SP2) for the selected scenarios at the sub-mission level and at global integration level.

In SP3 and SP4, (for fixed assets and transported assets) will be demonstrated the feasibility of solving the identified railway protection submissions through an efficient and cost effective integration of technologies. Closely reflecting the main needs in the railway sector, these sub-missions will focus on protection of key assets.

SP5 will then propose a coherent architectural and design framework for the sub-missions and integrate them in a global demonstration

SP5

SP5 will integrate the set of functional and technical results, developed in SP3 and SP4 at sub-mission level, taking into account security requirements defined in SP2.

This integration will define a system design, specifying the interfaces onboard of trains and within the railway infrastructure System design and will enable train to way-side integration, both for the passenger and the freight markets to set rules for system interoperability between different fleets, and railway operators, across different European countries.

SP5 will propose a coherent architectural and design framework to allow a futureproof affordable deployment

SP6

Future Design for Security - Led by TNO/SARAD

SP6 will describe a vision of the long term evolution of the future railway security
system as result of various influence factors and their mutual interactions. The long term foresight
of the railway security allows not only a forward view to the future evolution but it can also be used
for a view from an imaginary point of time in 10-20 years backward to the presence. That backward view allows the evaluation of long-term investments (which must be taken in the presence) with respect to their usefulness during the following years.

In particular, the following steps are necessary:

estimation of the relevant internal (steerable) and external (non-steerable) influence PEST (Political, Economical, Socio-cultural and Technological) factors of the railway security system (Internal factors could be affected by the operators, external factors like passenger preferences not);

estimation of the future developments of each of the selected influence PEST-factors as
function of time;

estimation of mutual interactions between the influencing PEST-factors (common with UIC);

Selection of those influence factors which determinates the future evolution of the railway
security system;

extension of the system model by future (PEST) parameters influencing the common security
aspects (e.g. intelligence, detection, neutralization, mitigation, protection and crisis
management) against threats;